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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-09-23, Page 6ra ews in Water MOOSEJAW. This Southern Saskatchewan city is facing a short- age hornai;e of water, and unless there is heavy rainfall). a rationing system will be en- forced. Daily supply makes it impose - Ole to 1111 water mains. Alberta Asks Irrigation EDMONTON,—Construction of irri- gation clams and establishment of community pastures in the drought area of Southern Alberta under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act, has been requested by the Alberta Gov- ernment. The proposed projects in- volving expenditure of more than $200,000. are before Hon. J. G. Gard- iner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, for his approval. Arctic Patrol Returns ABOARD S.S. NASCOPIE, Davis Strait, — The Federal Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol was steaming south this week, just inside the Arc- tic Circle on Davis Strait, while thous- ands of waterfowl streaked south through the skies, indicating approach of winter. The Hudson's Bay Company's ship Nascopie, convoying the patrol, has spent twenty-two days within the Arc- tic Circle and has travelled 2,200 miles. The patrol is due in Halifax Sept. 27, several stops being made in the meantime along the east shore of Baffin. Island. New Mental .l- uspital HAMILTON. Construction of an entirely new mental hospital on the Mountain, estimated to cost $3,000,000, is being considered by Hon. T. B. Mc- Questen, Minister of Highways and Public Works, it was revealed this week. Franc Drops Again PARIS.—A. fresh plunge of the franc to its lowest level in nearly a decade raised the acute political question of exchange control, which in many French minds is associated with econ- omic dictatorship. Mussolini Threatens Withdrawal LONDON.—Fascist Italy, supported by Nazi Germany, has indicated she might renounce her Spanish neutrality pledge because Italian warships were not given a role equal to those of Britain and France in the Mediterran- ean "piracy" patrol. Italian newspapers made it clear that unless Britain and France alter the "piracy" plan to give Italy an equal footing. Premier Mussolini may withdraw from the already tottering non-intervention plan under which twenty:seven nations promised to keep out of Spain. Great Japanese Offensive PEIPING. — Japanese headquarters announce the greatest offensive un- dertaken by the Japanese Army since the Russo-Japanese war thirty-two years ago driving the Chinese back on a broad front south and southwest of Peiping. It is said to be outflanking the Chinese, and weakening the stubborn resistance which stopped all Japanese efforts to advance down the Pieping- Hankow Railway since early in the North China conflict, now nine weeks old. The Japanese hope to drive back the right flank of the Chinese defense lines in Central Hopeh Province and open the way into Southern Hopeh, perhapsteven into Shansi and Shan- tung Provinces. Search Cellar For Body Outerio Provincial Police dug in the cellar of a house on Vaughan Rd., Tor- onto in hope of • finding' the body of Mrs. Christina MacKenzie of Allendale missing owife of George Roediger, arch - bigamist serving a term of nine years for bigamy and robbery. The fipor was broken up but no trace was found of the Roediger bride. The scene of the police search was the last place the woman was seen alive, She dis- appeared two days after. she and Roe - diger moved into the Vaughan Road house, Italy Brtanaled GENEVA.—The troubled paths of China and ;pain crossed fleetingly this week -And at a League of -Nations Connell session which heard Spanish Premier Juan Negri"' brand Italy ,as the "pirate" whose submarines have attacked Mediterranean shipping, Lindbergh British Subject? NEW+YORK..—A professional. source associated with'Colonel • Charles A. Lindbergh said this week the famous flier inteniied'to renounce his Milted States citizenship and become a Brit- ish subject. The informant declined to be quoted, or to permit use of his name, but his connection with Lind- bergh was an established, one. The manner in which thelnformatibn was obtained was not divulged, and eon- lirmation ql' denial could not be ob- tained elsewhere, Chinese Retreating PEIPING. — Thousands of Chinese troops, recoiling before the greatest Japanese offensive since the Russo- fapanese war, were reported to be re - C ---N rie treating on all fronts in Hopei Prov- ince. The Japs are cutting a wide path but it is expected the Chinese will rally. At present they are at- tempting a plan to break the coast brockade. Renewed Activity In Spain HLNDAYE, Franco -Spanish Fron- tier.—Spain's civil war raged with re- newed ferocity ou many fronts this week -end as the contending armies strove to establish new gains before cold weather sets iu. Valencia was .bombed, Madrid shelled, and on the Bay of Biscay coast, in Aragon and around Madrid, fighting continued. U. S. Wants Arms Curb WASHINGTON.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull has conveyed to foreign governments his hope that the United States can share leadership of a movement to halt the world armament race "when and if" an agreement ap- pears possible. This was discovered by the publi- cation of instructions sent recently to all diplomatic and consular agents in a new effort by Hull to promote world peace through international economic rehabilitation. Prime Minister Returns LONDON.—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London Sat- urday from his vacation in Scotland, but No. 10 Downing Street is under- going alterations, and be will continue temporary residence in No. 11, official home of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. Plague Gaining Virulence SHANGHAI.—A cholera epidemic reaching grave proportions spread through the foreign sectors of the metropolis this week -end, striking down more than 100 additional vic- tims overnight. The sweep of the plague raised the number of cases in the International Settlement and the French concession alone to 740. There are an additional 1,400 suspected cases in the two areas. Britain, Defers Action LONDON.—Great Britain will take no action in connection with the wounding in China.of her ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, by Japanese bullets until the Government receives a reply to its protest from THE MARKETS. HAY AND STRAW No. 2 timothy, old $10 to 11; new, $9 to $10 per ton; No. 3 timothy, $8 to $9; oats and wheat straw, $5.50 to $6.50. Above prices f.o.b. Toronto. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter -- Quotations to wholesale trade at Toronto this week -end. Creamery solids, No. 1 26% to 00 do 38• score 251/z to 00 do 37 score 241,9 to 00 do 36 score 231 to 00 Cheese New lenge (parafftned)133'4 to 14 y4 do twins 14 tb 14% do triplets 1414 to 143'4 (Average price paid to shippers, f.o.b. country points.) New large (pataffiued)137/ to 00 do triplets 133& to 00 POULT.RYsAN'D EGGS Buying prices: Toronto dealers this ' e n -end were quoting pro,iucers for.'un raded eggs,' delivered, cases returned: Eggs -- Grade A large 30 to 00 Grade A medium 28 to 00 Pullets 24 to 00 Grade B' 21 to 00 Grade' C , 17 to 00 Peewees 12 to 00. POULTRY; Prices paid to country shippers: Dressed.• Milk, Sel, A Sel. B. Fed A. Spring, Chickens 1 to 2 lbs. - 16 14 18 2 to,3 lbs. 17 16 20 S tont lbs. 1.9 17 21 4 lbs. and over 20 18 22 5 lbs. and• over 21 19 23 `GRAIN QUOTATIONS Following are closing quotations this week -end on Toronto ;grain transactions for car lots, price's on basis c.i.f. bay ports— Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.35%; No. 2 Northern, $1.2914; No. 3 Northern, $1.2434; No. 4 Nor- thern, $1.2034 Western oats—No. 2 C.W., 601c; No. 3 C.W., 59%c; No. 1 feed, 58%c. Manitoba barley—No. CW, 661/ac; No. 5 C.W., 64%c; No. 1 feed screen- . ings, $25 per ton, South African corn, 85c track, Montreal. Ontario grain, approximate prices traek shipping point—Wheat, $L06 to $1.08; oats, 370 to 39e; barley, 50c to 52e; corn, 90e to 920; rye, 75c to 79c; buckwheat, 51c to 53c; malting barley, 55c to 58c; milling oats, 8'1' to 39c. re ier Deciares World Civiliztion is at Stake Canada Joins With Seven Other Nations in a Pledge for World Economic Co -operation --.International Peace Broadcast Heard Prime Minister Mackenzie King Sunday night stated that "in this stormy and transitional period of hu- man affairs fear has largely sup- planted faith in the conduct of na- tions and their ultimate civilization is at stake." It was plain, therefore, he said, that "Governments and individuals alike must . . , pursues the arts of Co-opera- tion and conciliation in every possible field of affairs." The Canadian Prime Minister join- ed with -leaders of many nations in an international symposium on world economic cooperation sponsored by the l`lationai Peace Conference. They pledged themselves to strive fa peace through economic co-operation. • Eight Nations Join Mackenzie King spoke on a broad- cast with Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State; Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, who spoke from Geneva; Prime Minister Camille Chautemps of France, Premier Van Zeeland of Belgium, Chancellor von Schuschnigg of Austria; President Al- fonso Lonez of Colombia and Premier Mylan Hodza of Czechoslovakia, Outstanding in the broadcast was Eden's expressed hope that Great Britain and the United States might soon sign a trade agreement. "Canada has already made a. trade agreement with her great neighbor, and I very much hope that it may be found possible for the United Kingdom w also before very long to reach an agreement with the United States for the reduction of customs duties on a angst=favored:nation basis," he said, "Such au agreement would surely re- dound not only to our own advantage, but to that of the whole world," A Strange Time aNfackenzie King said that with "conditions of war" actually existing on two continents, seine might think the present an inopportune moment to begin a campaign for world economic co-operation. "It may well be that for all coun- tisies it would stave been better had something of the kind been com- zuenced years ago," he added. "The fact, however, that this is so only serves to make clear the wisdom of the undertaking itself." ,:Along the path of international 'economic co-operation, he added, "there surely lies an effective means of avoiding further wide -spread, if not world-wide, civil and international ,strife. In economic co-operation there also exists a means of bringing into • being a world order which holds with- in itself some promise of an enduring peace." the Japanese, it was announced offi- cially this week -end. Britain dispatched a note to Tokio shortly after the incident. The Jap- anese apanese replied that they regretted the outrage, but that it was not yet de- termined whether a Japanese airman was responsible for the wounding. $10,000,000 Borrowed OTTAWA. — Nearly $10,000,000 has been lent under the Home Improve- ment plan since it was instituted last November. The total on Sept. 15, Fin- ance Minister Dunning said this week, was $9,204,000, an increase of $954,000 from August 23. British Steamers Bombed VALENCIA.—Two British steamers, the Jean Weems and the Pracat, were damaged and the captain of one was injured by shrapnel during an insurg- ent air raid on the Port of Valencia this week -end. It was reported, without confirma- tion, that a British seaman aboard one of the ships was killed. The air raid was one of the worst experieinced by the loyalist emergency, - capital thus far in the 14.months-old civil war. At least eighteen persons were killed and fifty wounded.'" Naval Ring Breaks Up LONDON. — The naval ring round Spain is ended. Great Britain and France, acting in concert, have noti- fled members of the Spanish non-in- tervention committee that their war- ships engaged in patrolling the Span- ish coast would be withdrawn. They will be employed in sweeping pirate saiimarines out of the Mediterranean. The Anglo-French action removes. all naval; control over shipments of arms and volunteers to both rebels and loyalists in Spain in view of the fact that the Nyon patrol does not ex- tend to Spanish waters. Kaiser Intended Break BERLIN.—A sensational plan of for- mer Kaiser Wilhelm to rush incognito to Berlin has been abandoned with news his wife, Princess Hermine, has made a successful recovery from a critical operation. • Fearful she might not recover, .the exiled former emperor had made all arrangements for a trip by fast train from Doorn, Holland, to reach her bed- side. China Prepares NANKING.—China's 400,000,000 in- habitants oganized this week for a long, costly war with Japan.. Chiang Kai-Shek, dictator of the central government, started a "liberty loan" campaign for $150,000,000, sim- ilar to that which the United States used in the world war. Drastic decrees, ranging from death for spies and traitors to soldiers' pen- sions, have been put' into effect. Japs Announce Gains' PEhPING. — Japanese army head- quarters have announced that Choc- I how, Chinese advance base, 40 miles southwest of Peiping, has been cap tubed in a Japanese offensive along the Peiping-Hankow railway. The Japanese announced their mechanized forces, estimated at 60,000 men, had gained 12 miles in the last 24 hours after spectacular crossings -of the Yungting and Chuma rivers. Barrie Leaves $887,300 LONDON.—The will of Sir James Matthew Barrie, playwright, was pro- bated this week, showing. a gross es- tate of $887,300. Among his bequests was $10,000 tb "my beloved Elizabeth NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETtr EEDY Eyes on Czechoslovakia One of the last strongholds of de- mocracy in Europe, Czechoslovakia, occupies a doubly strategic position,. Nazi Germany would be bled any mo- ment to swallow this little country whose geographical outlines cut a neat slice out of the south-eastern German States. (More than two-thirds of Czechoslovakia's present popula- tion of 15,000,000 is concentrated in this western half in the highly indus- trialized provinces of Bohemia, Mor_ avia and Silesia, right on the doorstep of Germany.) The Czechs live in mor_ tal fear of the Hitler regime but feel temporarily secure under the military protection of Soviet Russia. At this moment in Europe's history, Czecho- slovakia is very important. Front Page News The 'Spanish 'Civil.' War had the front pages of our daily newspapers all to itself for a good many months of this year arid:. last, sharing honors occasionally with a particularly hor- rible murder, car accident or earth- qualfe fatality. With `the advent of the Sino_Japanese conflict, however, it was transferred to page 3 or even page 5. In August, 1937, the front page headlines screamed Jap bomb- ings at us, and talked in bold type of the grave international crisis in the Far East. The Sino -Jap situation is just now possibly as grave as it ever was, but as a front page story it has given place to the Mediterranean embroglio and the danger of war in Europe. There is a war going on in Spain, and a war going on in China, just the same, Need Bigger Population With one -sixteenth of the cultiva- table land in the world and more than that fraction of the world's natural resources, Canada has only one half of one percent. of the earth's popula- ti:,n. It is the contention of Dr. W. J. Black, who addressed the annual convention of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce at Vancouver, that Can- ada must have more population if it is to fulfill the destiny that nature in- tended for it. More people must be brougrt in from outside through im- migration, he said, if the country is to keep going ahead. An influx of farm_ ing families would aid development, he believes. To Make Peace With Ireland Tlie economic"war" between tlie United Kingdo mend the Irish Free State' is believed Lv bo nourans iia end. Of several.years' duration the conflict began whet} President Eamdn de Valera refused to transfer the Irish land annuities to the British Government. The United Kingdom, as guarantor of the loans, bad to meet the interest charges. To recoup ,her- self, she clapped special duties on , imports from the Irish Free State. The Irish Free State retaliated. But now de Valera has gone to Switzer_ 'Sand where he is meeting Dominions ecretary Malcolm MacDonald at Ge- neva to discuss differences between the two countries and bring about an ' economic reconciliation. Want Uniform Administration Amendments to Workmen's Com- pensation Acts throughout Canada that would give 100 per cent. com- pensation were recommended by the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress in session at Ottawa. It was voted also that the full cost of administra- tion be placed on industry, The ,ad- ministration of the Ontario Compen- sation Act as it affected those engag_ ed "int the mining and lumbering in- dustry was termed a "disgrace," since it has become a practice, it was said, for operators to• minimize the number of reported accidents, lower their contribution to the Com- pensation Board and increase their profits at the expense of the workers. The Congress is pressing to make the Acts more efficient and to have them uniform throughout the country. Italy Backs Out Demanding • full equality with the other European powers in patrolling the Mediterranean, Italy has rejected the Anglo-French invitation to join with the nine countries in a war against submarine piracy. Musso- lini's ministers had previously accsnt- ed, so that uu hen his consent was sud- denly withdrawn, it was thought that Germany had influenced him to a re- versal of decision. Nevertheless the agreement entered into at Nyon, Switzerland, against "piracy" will be put into operation immediately, with' or without Italian participation. "We Are Not Involved" Prime Minister Mackenzie King as- sured the country this week that "Canada has no ships in the Medi- terranean, and Canadian commerce is not involved in the policies being adopted by the nine -power confer- ence." He also observed that Can- ada had not taken any part in ac_ tivities of the non-intervention com- mitee.nor hod there been any,invi- tatfon to take part in the war on "piracy." Czinner, known professionally as Elis- abeth, Bergner, for the best perform- ance ever given any play of mine." Plan to Block Italy LONDON. — Great Britain and France have abandoned -diplomatic ef- fot;ts to persuade Italy to join the Mediterranean anti -piracy patrol. The British and French Foreign Offices were said to have exhausted., their patience in attempt to soothe the anger of Premier Mussolini. Bobbies Join In Embarrassing Chase When a large boar fell from a lorry passing over Blackfriars Bridge in London, Eng., recently, the driver continued, not noticing he had lost" the animal. The boar squealed in delight and began running in every direction utltil a policeman tante arounl the corner and gave chase. Six more joined in the Iudi- crous spectacle and the "bobbies" had a hectic time before they finally cornered it. Our picture ibows two policemen trying, to halt thr - r' near 1Blnckfoipts Bridge. • They also decided, it was learned, that Il Dude will not be permitted to create a new crisis in the twenty-seven nation Spanish Non Intervention Com- mittee by attempting to . force the "piracy" issue before it. The neu- trality body is prepared to block any such move by Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi by taking the position that it is without authority to deaf with the Nyon Mediterranean accord. Patrol Includes Planes GENEVA: — Nine Mediterranean powers, headed by Great Britain and France, signed an accord this week- end authorizing signatories of txe Nyon agreement to fire on "pirate" aeroplanes and surface ships as well• as submarines in the:: Mediterranean. Freighter Fired On HENDAY,,,Pr` rance.—The captain of thg II'linl'fr'eighter Stanmore reports urgent batteries, east of Riv-' alla fired on tile vessel when it ‘act tot put in to pick up refugees. The, Stzinn,iore headed for Bordeaux, France, without completing its . task. The Asturian defenders of Gijon, falling back before the insurgent of- fensive, worn reported to be dynamit- ing the path of their foe. Convicted of Manslaughter MONTREAL,—CyriasyBoucher, who wept bitterly during his trial, was con- victed of manslaughter' for the 'ham- mer slaying of his wife. The murder charge against. the midd�e-aged, thin and wan. French-Canadian was reduced by.the jury after summation of stories of bickering in the Boucher home. • the city. e.40 Fire Takes Ten Lives I.IRICINTILLOCH,"Dumbartonshire • --Great' Britain was horrified this • wedk-end by one of the worst fires of recent year's,, which took the lives of ten Irish farm laborers in this village eight miles from Glasgow. ' News of the tragedy plunged into mourning the little community or Achill Sound, County Mayo, poot, crofters' village on the west coast of Ireland, from which all the victlnfe camp. Third Wife Getting Divorce NEW YORK, Mrs. Elizabeth EatoYtj Guggenheim, third 'wife of Colonel MI Robert Guggenheim, who settled $1, 000,000 on each of his previous wive* when they divorced him, is in Deese for a divorce.